Honda Civic Hybrid sales soar; up 338% over last September

September was a dismal month for hybrids. The Toyota Prius racked up 11,394 sales, but fell 405 units short of reaching the mark it set in August. The Honda Insight dropped from the 2,030 sales reported in August down to just 1,679 and even the sporty CR-Z managed only a meager 1,236 units in its first full month on the market. Heck, even Toyota and Lexus, the hybrid duo that dominates the segment, dipped down slightly and finished the month with only 14,871 sales.

Okay, we're sure you get the point. Hybrid sales tanked. In fact, only one mainstream hybrid vehicle managed to record a year-over-year increase and month-over-month boost as well. Your gut might have told you that the Toyota Prius managed to keep sales up but, as we told you, the reigning hybrid king didn't fare so well. Now, if you'd guessed that the Honda Civic Hybrid was the lone gas-electric vehicle to post increases across the board, you'd have been right. Honda reported that 667 Civic Hybrids were sold this September, representing a whopping 338.8-percent increase over the same month last year when the company sold only 152 units. Admittedly, 667 vehicles is nothing compared to the high-water mark of 11,394 units set by the Prius, but that 338.8 percent increase is definitely worth a mention.

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So in reality Civic Hybrid sales are down significantly this year. Judging by recent massive boost in numbers I am betting, it was a utterly dismal first half of the year for Civic Hybrid that has lead to massive deals to move Civic Hybrids in recent months.

Every time I see pointless stories like this on ABG, I have to wonder, why it even exists, why not just fold the stories into regular AB and tag them green. If there even are any different stories.

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Anonymous

4 Years Ago

Instead of looking at gross sales - how did sales of these models do compared to the rest of the market? In other words, market share? Did hybrids maintain or lose market share last month compared to the previous month / year / etc.

Anonymous

4 Years Ago

What Eric said: "Hybrid sales tanked"

What Eric meant to say: Hybrid sales for Honda and Toyota have increased since the same month back in 2009. Sales compared to last month are up for Honda and are down about 3% for Toyota (not bad considering that there is a brand new hybrid vehicle on the market).

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Anonymous

4 Years Ago

Lol.
Everyone's been selling more cars. So they sold ~200 more units. Wahoo.

Give us some real news, ABG. There is plenty of stuff on alternative energy on ecogeek or treehugger to pilfer. Be like regular autoblog and don't be afraid to get off topic when you don't have any news. It's better than articles like this.

If it weren't for the community of intelligent people here, i would probably not browse here anymore, because the news quality has dropped quite a bit in recent years. At least find some *quality* filler if you don't have anything real to report.

Anonymous

2 Months Ago

I'm going to assume that you just wanted to crap on the thread and really didnt think much about what you were saying.

338% increase resulted in 667 sales. Your first mistake. That's 465 more sales over the previous year. Lets assume for illustrative purposes here that no upgraded models were sold and every single extra sale was a base model. ($24k msrp)